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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,762, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed Decemher28, 1889. Serial No. 335,188. (No model.)

.State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Transfer Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention is directed to a construction of railway transfer-tables adapted for use with cable railways.

In common with my improvements in railway transfer-tables described in my patents, Nos. 171,726 and 378,407, my present invention is designed to effect the object of a bodily shift of a car from one track to another track parallel to and on either side of it with the least practicable excavation of the ground. The difference of the problem from that relating to an ordinary surface rail- 7 way or tramway grows out of the necessity of providing room for the traverse of the grip mechanism.

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1 may represent the rails or trams of a cable railway or cable tramway. 2 may represent the railsof another cable-way track parallel to the first 'named- Both tracks are crossed at right angles by two deep and narrow trenches 3, and midway between said trenches by a comparatively broad and shallow trench 4. Of these trenches the trenches 3 are provided to enable the passage from one track to the other of the end sills 5 of the transfer-table, and the trench 4 is to enable the passage from one track to the other of the grip mechanism 6 of the car which it is desired to transfer.

Gaps 7 in the trackways of the supporting and guiding wheels 8 of the transfer-table permit the passage of the grip when desired. These gaps may at all times, except at the moment of the transfer, be filled or bridged over by tongues 9. The tongues are provided with pivots 9, controlled by springs 9 which serve to return the tongues to their normal position.

Each end sill 5 of the transfer-table is of the represented -U form-that is to say, it has at its mid-length a loop or depressed portion 10 of sufficient depth to permit the traverse of the grip mechanism in the ordinary traffic of a cable railway. Each sill 5 is bent upward and again horizontally out-ward at its ends, so as to form lugs or flanges, which rest upon and are clipped or bolted to the axles 1-1 of the guiding and supporting Wheels 8 of the transfer-table. This construction enables the guiding and supporting wheels of the transfer-table to be wholly above ground, so as to require no trench or other excavation.

A modification of my invention having the same U-formed end sills 5- and the same cross-trenches 3 3 4, but requiring no crosstrack, is seen in Fig. III. In this form the bed or frame 12 of the transfer-table has flanged cleats 13 beneath it, which run upon and are guided by the tops of rollers 14, in which trunnions' 15 revoly e in bearings 16, sunk in the ground.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 1. A laterally-operating transfer-table for cable-railway cars, consisting of a frame having guiding and supporting rollers, a longitudinal slot for the reception of the 'gripshank, and a trench to permit of the lateral movement of the grip.

2. The combination, in a transfer-table for cable-railway cars, of a conduit or tunnel for the reception of the grip and forming a continuation of the conduit of the railway, alongitudinal slot for the passage of the gripshank, two yoke-shaped frames extending beneath the travel of the grip and connecting the sides of the table with a trench for the lateral movement of the grip, and passageways for the lateral travel of the yoke-shaped frames, all arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES HATHAWAY.

Witnesses:

HERBERT KNIGHT, ARTHUR PERCIVAL Kmenug. 

